Bill Text: NY A08986 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Allows the commission to designate any commercial mobile radio or cellular telephone service providers as an eligible telecommunications carrier for purposes of providing lifeline service.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-02-03 - SIGNED CHAP.13 [A08986 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08986-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8986

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 7, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to commercial mobile
          radio and cellular telephone service providers

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 6 of section  5  of  the  public
     2  service  law,  as amended by a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the
     3  public service law relating to  commercial  mobile  radio  and  cellular
     4  telephone service providers, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.
     5  5782-A and A. 7811-A, is amended to read as follows:
     6    c. Notwithstanding paragraph a of this subdivision, the commission may
     7  designate  any  commercial  mobile  radio  or cellular telephone service
     8  providers as an eligible  telecommunications  carrier  for  purposes  of
     9  providing  lifeline  service, in addition to any commercial mobile radio
    10  or cellular telephone service providers designated as such  pursuant  to
    11  47 U.S.C. § 214(e) and 47 U.S.C. § 214(e)(2), without requiring any such
    12  provider  to  obtain  a  certificate of public convenience and necessity
    13  pursuant to section ninety-nine of this  chapter.    The  [commissioner]
    14  commission  is authorized to promulgate all rules and regulations neces-
    15  sary to implement the provisions of this paragraph.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    17  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the public service law
    18  relating  to  commercial  mobile  radio  and  cellular telephone service
    19  providers, as proposed in legislative bills numbers  S.  5782-A  and  A.
    20  7811-A, takes effect.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11763-04-0
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